Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Chicago
B.S., Chemistry, Nanjing University
Zhenan Bao is Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy, a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Material Science and Engineering and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. She founded and is faculty director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiate (eWEAR). Prior to joining Stanford, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1995-2004). She has over 450 refereed publications and over 60 US patents with a Google Scholar H-Index >140. Her work has enabled flexible electronic circuits and displays. In her recent work, she has developed skin-inspired organic electronic materials, which resulted in unprecedented performance or functions in medical devices, energy storage and environmental applications.
Bao is a member of the NAE and the NAI. She is a Fellow of MRS, ACS, AAAS, SPIE, ACS PMSE and ACS POLY. She served on the Board of Directors for MRS (2003-2005), as an Executive Committee Member for the ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division, and a board member for the National Academies Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology 2009-2012.
Bao was selected as Nature’s Ten people who mattered in 2015 as a “Master of Materials” for her work on artificial electronic skin. Her recent awards include the Wilhelm Exner Medal by Austrian Federal Minister of Science 2018, ACS Award on Applied Polymer Science 2017, The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in the Physical Sciences 2017, ACS Carl Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013, ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, she was the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, the IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008, R&D 100 Award and R&D Magazine’s Editors Choice of the “Best of the Best” new technology for 2001. She has been selected in 2002 by the ACS Women Chemists Committee as one of the twelve “Outstanding Young Woman Scientist who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century”. She was also selected by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2003 as one of the top 100 young innovators for this century.
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Chicago
B.S., Chemistry, Nanjing University
Zhenan Bao is Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy, a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Material Science and Engineering and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. She founded and is faculty director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiate (eWEAR). Prior to joining Stanford, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1995-2004). She has over 450 refereed publications and over 60 US patents with a Google Scholar H-Index >140. Her work has enabled flexible electronic circuits and displays. In her recent work, she has developed skin-inspired organic electronic materials, which resulted in unprecedented performance or functions in medical devices, energy storage and environmental applications.
Bao is a member of the NAE and the NAI. She is a Fellow of MRS, ACS, AAAS, SPIE, ACS PMSE and ACS POLY. She served on the Board of Directors for MRS (2003-2005), as an Executive Committee Member for the ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division, and a board member for the National Academies Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology 2009-2012.
Bao was selected as Nature’s Ten people who mattered in 2015 as a “Master of Materials” for her work on artificial electronic skin. Her recent awards include the Wilhelm Exner Medal by Austrian Federal Minister of Science 2018, ACS Award on Applied Polymer Science 2017, The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in the Physical Sciences 2017, ACS Carl Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013, ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, she was the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, the IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008, R&D 100 Award and R&D Magazine’s Editors Choice of the “Best of the Best” new technology for 2001. She has been selected in 2002 by the ACS Women Chemists Committee as one of the twelve “Outstanding Young Woman Scientist who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century”. She was also selected by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2003 as one of the top 100 young innovators for this century.